Global Church News
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Papal delegation suspends ordinations in Paraguay diocese
Jul 30, 2014
An apostolic visitation of Paraguay's Cuidad del Este diocese concluded on Saturday with the visitors suspending a scheduled ordination until they have reached conclusions about their investigation.
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Iraqi prelate: we need action, not just words
Jul 24, 2014
“We need more than words now, we need concrete actions,” an Iraqi archbishop told Vatican Radio.
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Church response to refugees is part of pro-life call, bishop says
Jul 24, 2014
Answering the needs of refugee migrants is one component of a truly pro-life view, said a U.S. bishop, announcing a new initiative to aid children who have fled Central America for the United States.
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Religious liberty 'fundamental' to human dignity, bishops affirm
Jul 24, 2014
In a recent interview with CNA, Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore reaffirmed religious liberty as a priority for the U.S. bishops, emphasizing its relation to personal dignity and evangelization.
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Church leaders in Holy Land plead for end to violence in Gaza
Jul 23, 2014
The apostolic nuncio in the Holy Land has repeated the call of Pope Francis for an end to the violence in Gaza, and the Latin-rite Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem has denounced the bloodshed as a “massacre.”
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Openness to beauty leads soul to God, says Catholic thinker
Jul 23, 2014
The senses are the “road to God”, who speaks to us through beauty, said Bill Donaghy, who holds a master's in systematic theology, at the recent Theology of the Body Congress held in Philadelphia.
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‘Even Genghis Khan didn’t do this’: Mosul emptied of Christians
Jul 22, 2014
ISIL, the jihadist group that controls large sections of Syria and Iraq, confiscated the Christians’ possessions as they departed from Iraq’s 2nd-largest city.
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Christians in Mosul told: leave, convert, or die
Jul 21, 2014
Christians in Mosul, Iraq, have been told that they must leave, convert to Islam or accept dhimmitude, or die.
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Bishops: Practicing religion in public is not discrimination
Jul 21, 2014
Americans must be free to practice their faith in the public square – including business decisions – without being viewed as discriminatory, urged four U.S. bishops.
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John Paul II taught that 'the body matters,' priest says
Jul 18, 2014
Saint John Paul II's teaching on love and sexuality shows the dignity of the human body and how concrete acts of mercy are demanded of all of us, says priest and author Father Michael Gaitley.
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